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“ I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ”

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Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

~ Barbra Streisand

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

~ Barbra Streisand

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

~ Barbra Streisand

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

~ Barbra Streisand